We Need Something to Support Our Learning Process

                Motivation to learn is influenced by internal and external factors that come from inside or outside learners. External factors means that environment, relationship, social interaction and needs of relatedness which is learner will feel that she/he accepted by others can take place in arrange the motivation to learn. From the inside, internal factors also take important role because it consists of the ability to solve all the problem, ability to reach full potential in doing some jobs.  All of the factors above are part of needs which students’ have and will determine their level of motivation to learn.

                In this part, I have learned about the influence of needs in learning. In my opinion, everyone will think what she/he needs or feel first before do the other activity includes learning. According Maslow there are some needs that have to be fulfilled in engage someone to be motivated especially in learning process. They are consist of psychological needs, safety, acceptance and love from environment, self esteem and the reason to reach our potential ability in struggle with challenge. I am agreeing with Maslow that above aspects will determine the effort that we give in learning. For instance if I have problem in psychological needs like I feel hungry or sleepy it will affect my learning process is not effective because I will think about food or bed rather than the lesson while I am in learning process. Besides that, the way of social life accepts us and safety also influence our thought to learn. The way we accepted in environment such as the response or feedback from teacher, the friendships have bigger role in influence motivation. Victim of bullying does not have motivation to learn because she/he feels not safe and alone in this world; it makes someone scary and avoids learning in school. Bullying is serious and big case I think. It is a bit different with case of teachers who do not response or pay attention the students, never appreciate students’ work or give feedback in assertive way but in rude way. They are simply case that usually happen in learning process but have same impact with bullying case. All of those make students lost the motivation in learning because they feel the environment is not support them to reach their maximum level.

                Every need that someone has will affect to the appearance of psychical things such as work, learn or play. Everyone wants to be connected to others, have ability or effective function in social life and be independent in take decision. They are needs of self determination, the other theory of needs in learning. In my opinion, Maslow theory and these needs are related each other even they are different in name. In these theory shows that activity in class such as the role of learners in choosing the topic for their assignment, to determine classroom management, the role of teachers in praise the students, the ability to compete with the other in fair when solve the problem in learning are things that can be applied in classroom to empower students’ motivation. Every theory is correlated because all of those things above will not reach maximum potential if the students’ need in psychology was not fulfilled. That example tells that simple need that usually be ignored can give big impact to the other need.

                As candidate of teacher I have learn that we cannot ignore students’ need and only think about the development of academic skill itself. I do not want to be a teacher who always proud because I can give difficult challenge for my students and even though they can solve it but they are not comfort with me, all of my effort were nothing. In my opinion, it make the material only take place in short term memory not in long term because students will lose their motivation to learn or review again the content that I give, everything because I ignore their needs of self determination. As a student now, I comfort if my teacher appreciate my work, give feedback of it and always include me when we have classroom management. I feel it when I have been learn in 3^rd grade of Vocational High School up to now. My home teacher gave the students to free but still be responsible in everything we do, it made us comfort and be motivated in learning even the material was very difficult for example Mathematics.

                The teachers who never give feedback of students’ work or check it will decrease students’ respect to them. It happened with my friend and I when we have a lecture who gave us a lot of assignments but never give feedback so we did not know our development in learning. The result was we become as procrastinator people who did the task almost the deadline and we ignored him/her. We just blame her/him indirectly if we had late in submitted the task. From this experience I learned that everything that happens with my students is according to me. Everything based on how I response them, how am I will support them and how am I invite them into the learning process.